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Old 07-09-2008, 03:12 AM   #1
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The World's Longest Book
So this Mark Leach guy has written a book which he is claiming is the longest novel ever published, Marienbad My Love. 12.6 million words. I think it's ebook published only. I hope so for the trees' sake. He's also claiming
-the world's longest word. Also called "the holy Jah," the 4.4-million-letter noun is a coinage of words from the world's faiths. It means "god within."
-the world's longest sentence (3 million words).
-the world's longest book title (6,700 words).


Books homepage: http://marienbadmylove.com/default.aspx
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Again I advance across the tragic beaches of this deserted island, footsteps upon sand so profound, so deep, that one perceives no step. Mute beaches, where footsteps are lost. Mute, deserted – footsteps upon sand over which I advance once again. To find you.
What's your take? Brilliant outsider art? Throwing common sense to the wind? Spectacle to break a world record? Mental health concerns?
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Old 07-09-2008, 03:39 AM   #2
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Again I advance across the tragic beaches of this deserted island, footsteps upon sand so profound, so deep, that one perceives no step. Mute beaches, where footsteps are lost. Mute, deserted – footsteps upon sand over which I advance once again. To find you.
Dude opens with "I" then in the same sentence has "that one perceives no step."

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Hypomania, lots of time on hands, doesn't get out very much, needs more lithium and less bandwidth. /online quack diagnosis
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Old 07-09-2008, 09:17 PM   #5
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Just a novelty. Not even as satisfying as my novel tea, which I shall take with a crumpet this very afternoon.
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What's your take? Brilliant outsider art? Throwing common sense to the wind? Spectacle to break a world record? Mental health concerns?
A lame attempt to attract attention and nothing more.

That opening paragraph. Holy... and just think, there's only 12,599,957 more words to go.
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Old 07-09-2008, 10:56 PM   #8
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For stuff like this, we need a thread called something like Literary Onanism: Spilling Our Synonyms on the Ground.
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Old 07-12-2008, 05:46 PM   #9
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What's the plot??
It'd wanna be bloody brilliant..
And please dont tell me it's all like that^^
Poor bloke.. although he could also claim world's most unreadable novel? Maybe that'd be a comfort
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Old 07-15-2008, 03:15 AM   #10
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Sounds like too much free time to me.
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After reading that first sentence I don't want to read the rest of the book. I'll pass.
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I vote for mental health concerns. I don't think I need to explain.
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I'd pay good money for a paper copy of this. There's nothing more satisfying than heaving a bad book across the room as you scream in anguish.
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But...COULD you heave it? The damn thing is 48,000 pages! I could barely carry my history textbooks.

Course, you're a big strong man
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You'd need a trebuchet.

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Not a trace of redundancy there, then. Should be a fun read.
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I thought there was that very strange novel series that was discovered in the 70's that came in at much longer than that. If memory serves it was about twelve hermaprodite sisters set in a world of fantasy that had parrallels to the Mongol conquest.
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What was he trying to write ? The Mahābhārata???

He's a damned lunatic.
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OMG. After that first sentence, I'd BUILD a trebuchet just so I could watch it fly away. It'd be more satisfying.
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